Here's the thing: I like THOR: THE DARK WORLD more than most people. A lot of that, yes, is because my boy (Thor) is in it. (In fact, he is the Main Character.) Some of it is because it was a major level-jump in how visually beautiful a Marvel film could be, from a design and execution perspective. And some of it was because that final set piece, where Thor fights Malekith in Greenwich…

What is it with Scandinavians and upsetting their audiences through unjustly shitting all over their main characters? The Hunt is tense and upsetting for nearly its entire runtime, right down to the final shot, and Mikkelsen delivers that kind of perfect performance you hope gets an Oscar nomination but always gets ignored by nature of it being a foreign language film.

Given the subject matter and the return of the Woody Allen allegations, this is a relevant and perhaps even…

It would be easy to dismiss a lot of what 12 Years a Slave does and how it does it. It's an unbelievably brutal film, and one that seeks to sit and stay in this brutality. It would be easy to call it out for being overly simplistic in its depiction of slavery. It would be easy to call it out for relishing too often in its depiction of brutality and suffering. It would be easy to criticize it as…

Wow. I never thought I would be this moved by a bunch of animated clay figures. This is Adam Elliot's labour of love and he manages to excel in just about every department imaginable. Animation, design, music, language, all are outstanding, but what stands head and shoulders above everything else is the story and the characters that inhabit it.

Make no mistake, as cute and heartwarming as it eventually, there is a dark undertone to it approached with a pitch…

NO is about the advertising committee behind the "NO" side of a referendum determining Pinochet's grip on power in Chile. In a year with Lincoln and Argo this fits right in and is probably better than both of them, involving both the importance of entertainment in politics as well as the groundwork to get an underdog campaign working. Bernal is fantastic in this film and it may be the best film I've…

9 Observations after watching Prometheus way too many times. (Or the random, unorganized, overlapping ramblings of a fool)

1. Prometheus is first and foremost a horror genre movie, from it's first frame to its last. I cannot stress this enough. It touches big themes and universal questions, but it is a genre exercise through and through. And the primary genre is horror, not hard sci-fi. The first scene is prologue that establishes how strong and imposing the evil is. Not…